Choose your own adventure

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a...

The rock eaters

First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But...

Pushing it uphill

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially...

Bogans of the sky

Black-backed gulls, their messy city lives, and the people entangled with them....

In Fiji, a wave of meth, HIV and shame

A dispatch from Suva, where cruel epidemics are racing in parallel....

Forty names for kākā

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who...

All that you can see is blue

Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a...

“It’s just you and your dog.”

Every year, the finest sheep dogs and handlers in New Zealand and Australia compete for...

How to dig a better hole

For many Māori, archaeology has a bad name, with treasures removed to museums, stripped of...

Silent Spring

Last year, they were hit with a deadly virus. The year before that, starvation. What...

The track makers

Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later,...

The Man Who Drew Wellington

In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really...

Dragonlust

Split open a chunk of agate and a broiling world of ancient colour emerges. Collecting...

Hall of mirrors

Every autumn, hundreds of newly fledged Cook’s petrel chicks emerge from their burrows in the...

Rise of the noble false widow

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps....

Making gullies great again

A story that proves we can change the world, one manky strip of city at...

We loved hāpuku too much. Now we have a second chance.

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that...

Chasing ice

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase...

Magic flora

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never...

Our deeply toxic relationship with willows

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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